Enda Patrick Hargaden, PhD Candidate, Cited in Irish Newspaper

PhD Candidate, Hargaden, had his dissertation cited recently regarding the connection about unemployment and crime in Ireland over the last decade.

Enda Patrick Hargaden's research formed the basis of a recent article in The Irish Times. Hargaden, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Michigan Department of Economics, investigated the effect of unemployment on crime in Ireland over the past decade. The article notes that Hargaden finds a clear statistical relationship between property crime and local unemployment: a 1,000 decrease in the number of people employed in a district was linked to about 50 extra thefts and burglaries per year. The research, which forms a chapter of Hargaden's dissertation, helps inform the public debate about both the causes of crime, and the policies most effective at reducing it.

Hargaden is a PhD candidate in the final stages if his dissertation research and is currently a job market candidate.